Welcome to Johan's pages

My Pages

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• FlyLow
• M-B Classic
• merca.zix.se
• Weather (Swe)

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• About Me

To fly low is a fantastic feeling and learn how to do it safely is a very special experience. Imagine your self flying at 200 feet above the ground at more than 155 mph! The ground and treetops passes by at a rattling speed, and you are so close to the ground that you are able to see both humans and animals without any problems, you can even wave to them if you like. Unlike the World War II pilots, you do not hunt down enemies, but an invisible line 200 feet up in the air. The line goes in east-west direction and should be followed, without autopilot, within a few feet margin, both laterally and vertically, regardless of the terrain below you. Through your windscreen the landscape constantly changes, hills, mountains, valleys and suddenly a deep canyon appears, and after that a small lake... Over the past ten years the landscape has also been enhriched with a new type of "forest" - mobile phone masts - often about 240 feet tall, that is slightly higher than your altitude. In addition, birds flying around the airplane is also something you have to have in mind when working on that altitude. All these factors needs to constantly be keept in your mind. If you lose your concentration for more than a few seconds during the three to four-hour long sessions, you often end up off course or losing your altitude... Find out more at the section FlyLow and how life appears for some of Sweden's most special pilots.

To restore an old car is also a special experience. In a barn, you will find an old wreck that had been set aside for decades. It is completely covered with dust and dirt and hopefully the engine ran the last time the car was moved. When you open the door, you feel that special odor, that you only find in these old abandoned cars. You manage to pull the old wreck up onto your trailer and drive home happily to your workshop. After a few months, or years, you are a lot poorer, but instead you can put your self behind the wheel, turn on the ignition key, hear the engine run and finally roll out the car from the workshop under its own power... That is also a fantastic feeling. Find out more on how it is to restore old Mercedes-Benz wrecks at section M-B Classic

From August 2018 I have a new blogg. At merca.zix.se you can continue to read about my restoration of a Mercedes-Benz 170 Vb from 1953.

Something else that has fascinated me for all these years is the weather. Particularly interesting was it to witness the amazing tropical storms that I experience during a period in the late 1990s when I studied in the southern United States. Several weather stations has since then been installed at my home in Sweden, but none of these stations have ever been able to report the weather onto the internet. My current weather station, which was installed in summer 2013, are equipped with special hardware and software and finally it got that possibility. You can study the current weather in Märsta with graphs and tables at my Weather Page.

Hope all visitors will have a pleasant and interesting reading.

/ Johan